Angels Quotes

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

Abraham Lincoln

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Mark Twain

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Mark Twain

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

William Blake

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Author Unknown

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, (1712)

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.

Carl Polloi

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

George Gordon Byron

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other.

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Saint Francis de Sales

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13: 2

Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.

Franklin P. Jones

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

William Shakespeare

Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.

Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06 - 21 - 05

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

Anthony Trollope

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Unknown

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano de Crescenzo

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Terry Lynn Taylo

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget - Me - Nots of the angels.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.

Angel Blessing

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Sherme

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

Jerome K. Jerome

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Mark Twain

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov, 1897

Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Clive Staples Lewis